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Updated: May 31, 2025
"That's just what Nick says." "You talk of it together a great deal?" "Yes, Nick's very good to me." "Clever Nick! And what do you advise him?" "Oh to do something." "That's valuable," Peter laughed. "Not to give up his sweetheart for the sake of a paint-pot, I hope?" "Never, never, Peter! It's not a question of his giving up," Biddy pursued, "for Julia has herself shaken free.
Moggridge had not been satisfied with the colour of the platform. It wanted repainting, and I think it very likely that it was a strain of that boyishness which I hope survives in us all, and one of whose quaint fancies is an envy of house-painters, so happy all day with paint-pot and brush and great smooth boards to dab and smooth, that decided him to do the job himself. Mr.
The village-schoolmaster, who displayed his superior knowledge to the rustics gazing at an eclipse of the sun by assuring them that it was "only a phenomenon," was but one of a great host of wiseacres who stand ready with brush and paint-pot to label every new development, and fancy that in so doing they have abundantly answered every reasonable inquiry concerning cause, character, and consequence.
Very soon we will see whom it really belongs to!" He ripped out the paper of the largest window-pane and pushed his way through into the studio. Then in great haste he took up paint-pot and brush, and sacrilegiously set himself to work upon Wio-wani's last masterpiece.
"I tore the leaf and dropped the bits into the paint-pot. "'That's all right, Doctor, I said; 'but is there no way? "'None. "He turned away, wearily. He'd knocked about so much over the world that he was past bothering about explaining things or being surprised at anything.
Slyme went outside and presently returned with his arms full of old wood, which he smashed up and threw into the fireplace; then he took an empty paint-pot and filled it with turpentine from the big tank and emptied it over the wood. Amongst the pots on the mixing bench he found one full of old paint, and he threw this over the wood also, and in a few minutes he had made a roaring fire.
Phil Squod, with the aid of a brush and paint-pot, is employed in the distance whitening the targets, softly whistling in quick-march time and in drum-and-fife manner that he must and will go back again to the girl he left behind him. "Phil!" The trooper beckons as he calls him.
The low winter sun beamed directly upon the great double-doored entrance on this side; one of the doors being open, so that the rays stretched far in over the threshing-floor to the preacher and his audience, all snugly sheltered from the northern breeze. The listeners were entirely villagers, among them being the man whom she had seen carrying the red paint-pot on a former memorable occasion.
Here Lipp stopped speaking and dipped his brush in the paint-pot, for his master was coming around the corner of the house. One day Lipp disappeared. The authorities did everything in their power to find him, but in vain; and since, at that time, the river, on which the city stood, had overflowed its banks, it was decided that Lipp had perished.
Good-day, spider-legs, an' don't go for to run into a hartist again, with a paint-pot in 'is 'and." So saying, Miles pushed through the laughing crowd and sauntered away. He turned into the first street he came to, and then went forward as fast as was consistent with the idea of an artisan in a hurry.
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